SMTP on Gmail

SMTP on Gmail

Setting SMTP for your portal

SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

**This may not work with all hosting services. The host I have this site with does some type of relay that does not use this method. It wasn't something I could do on my own and required contacting them. But, in case this works for you......

If you intend to use a feedback module, you have to specify the SMTP server that will be used to send the mail from the form.

Your hosting service may have specific settings for relaying these email messages from forms. PowerDNN, host of this site, has this feature, for example. You will have to ask them what settings to use.

If you have a gmail account, you can use googlemail to send a limited number of emails from your forms.

After entering the information, you can test the settings by clicking the Test SMTP Settings button. If the connection is successful, you will see the following message at the top of the page.

You will receive a confirmation email at the email address you entered for the account.

** Note: When I first set this up on a production server, I got some email messages from Google telling me that suspicious activity had been detected on my account and that someone was trying to send email from an unexpected location using my account. (Good to know they are checking things like that.) I needed to respond to them to let them know it was really me.